The Placebo

Not a Placebo presentation, but totally worth checking out!

Afro-Punk, a 66-minute documentary, explores race identity within the punk scene. More than your everyday, Behind the Music or typical “black history month” documentary this film tackles the hard questions, such as issues of loneliness, exile, inter-racial dating and black power.

We follow the lives of four people who have dedicated themselves to the punk rock lifestyle. They find themselves in conflicting situations, living the dual life of a person of color in a mostly white community.

The style of the documentary inter-cuts interviews from scores of black punk rockers from all over the nation with scenes from our four protagonists’ lives. They come from different regions, generations, genders, and sexual preferences but their stories are amazingly similar. Afro-Punk features performances by Bad Brains, Tamar Kali, Cipher, and Ten Grand. It also contains exclusive interviews by members of Fishbone, 247- spyz, Dead Kennedys, Candiria, Orange 9mm and TV on the Radio to name a few. Presented by Ethnic Studies Collective and the Black Student Union. The director will be in attendance for a Q and A after the film.

When: Monday, February 27, 2006 at 6:30pm at
Where: Founders Hall 118, HSU, Arcata
Cost: FREE

February 25, 2006: Friends of the Jackson Women’s Health Foundation present a FREE film showing of Frontline’s The Last Abortion Clinic. This film will be shown at Arcata’s Peace and Justice Center - 1040 H St. - at 7:00 PM. The intention of this film showing is to present and discuss the diminishing availability of pro-choice options for women around the country.

Note: This entry was edited waaaay after the fact to remove the link that led to the wrong Polar Bodies. Oops.

• Natural History
• Polar Bodies
• Show Me the Pink (portland)
• Pincher of Peril (portland)

8pm, Empire Squared (map), Eureka

At the Ink People, 411 12th St. Eureka

The Placebo site may be down for part of today as I’m going to be upgrading and extending the software. This is the second half of the site overhaul, which is why I’ll probably need to take it offline for a bit.

Also, there’s a board meeting tonight (Sunday, Feb 19, 2006) at 5:30 at the Ink People building in Eureka (map). As always, everybody is welcome. In addition to our normal business, I’ll be showing members how to make use of the new site ? any Placebo board member who wants to can post news, pics, etc, and you don’t need to know any code. _dao